Abstract
Stories are shared by millions of people online every day. They post and re-post interactions as they re-tell and respond to large-scale mediated events. These stories are important as they can bring people together, or polarise them in opposing groups. Narratives Online explores this new genre - the shared story - and uses carefully chosen case-studies to illustrate the complex processes of sharing as they are shaped by four international social media contexts: Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Building on discourse analytic research, Ruth Page develops a new framework - 'Mediated Narrative Analysis' - to address the large scale, multimodal nature of online narratives, helping researchers interpret the micro- and macro-level politics that are played out in computer-mediated communication.
Enables readers to understand how large-scale stories are created and consumed online
Proposes a new framework, 'mediated narrative analysis', that can be applied to any kind of computer-mediated communication
Uses a rich variety of examples from well-known contemporary social media
Enables readers to understand how large-scale stories are created and consumed online
Proposes a new framework, 'mediated narrative analysis', that can be applied to any kind of computer-mediated communication
Uses a rich variety of examples from well-known contemporary social media
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Number of pages | 240 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781107139916 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2018 |